A Common Core standards architect moves to the College Board, which provides AP and SAT testing. He foresees aligning the tests, which nearly every college-bound high school student takes, with the Common Core.

Federal college aid is actually just corporate welfare, writes Andrew Biggs in The Atlantic.

From Monday:

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan visited Florida to give a laundry list of things he thinks Florida does wrong on education. He suggested lobbyists are the reason the state has kept its private tutoring requirement for failing low-income kids.

Though tax-credit scholarships have been put on the legislative back burner in Pennsylvania, Catholics in the state are rallying for their passage.